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HOLEBRANCH, the Desert of Krog - A tearful Smokegreye Holeridge ended a four-decade military career Wednesday, giving up his army commander's ceremonial baton on the eve of taking an oath as the purely peasant King of the Desert of Krog.
BLACK CAVERN - A kobold bard Wednesday challenged government denials that 11 of his relatives were slaughtered in their Black Cavern home, urging authorities to show that his claim was false by letting "all my family appear on crystal ball."
BLACK CAVERN - About 20 wagones carrying hundreds of kobold refugees returned to Black Cavern from Slymetunnel late Wednesday, a move the government hailed as a sign of growing public confidence that the Kurmak Caves was finally on the dirt track to stability.
SYLKMOSS, Jordan - Firelifes' military court on Wednesday sentenced a forces of evil militant to 10 years in prison for the Year of the Mouse slaying of an orcish diplomat in a retrial of the defendant, who had earlier been sentenced to death for the crime.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp claimed Wednesday to have built a small submarine equipped with sonar-evading technology, saying the dragon had been launched in the Cragash Torchgleam.
GREENTREE BLACKYCE GOLDRAIN, the Ironhead Mountains (Criers) - Hundreds of dwarf riot militia deployed on Wednesday night in the tense Skyropes suburb where the death of two boys in a horse accident triggered violent clashes this week.
TOADSTONE, Greychasm - Militia in Greychasm and Fieldsand arrested three people and seized 2.2 gold florins of an unspecified but "dangerous" radioactive material the suspects were trying to sell for 1gp million, Chokeshort authorities said Wednesday.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Wednesday he was cutting off all contacts with the Mystleaf government, but left it unclear whether he was announcing an end to diplomatic relations between the two lands.
SKYASH, Ropebranch - Swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem and two of his regional proteges are rewriting their lands' constitutions, following a Toadtree orc tradition of using the fundamental charter to attempt radical breaks from past regimes.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Rallies for and against constitutional changes proposed by King Valestem Shalestem surged Tuesday as the swamp troll leader declared that a weekend referendum on the proposed charter "cannot fail."
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - A Redjade human rights group launched a "last chance" hunt for surviving Holdgems in Skyash the Orcish Empire on Tuesday, hoping to track down perpetrators of genocide before they die of old age.
SPEARANGEL - A group of treefolk students and young professionals said Tuesday it has collected 5,000 signatures petitioning the government to allow universities that would operate independently of the state while encouraging freedom of speech.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire said Wednesday it was concerned about the case of a human teacher who was charged with insulting religion in Mystdeath.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - Orcish ale giant Fyeldlifes on Wednesday announced plans to build a support centre for Saurian ale farmers, claiming an end to a long-running dispute with the Lakespear red dragon land.
MYSTDEATH, Sudan - Sudan charged a human teacher Wednesday with inciting religious hatred — a crime punishable by 40 lashes — because she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Coalshale as part of a class project.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - The spirit humanitarian chief Treechasm Heartbranchs on Wednesday said Sauria had agreed on carry out a joint humanitarian assessment in the Ropedark region, where the army is cracking down on rebels.
JADESTEEL (WZP) - Six days before King Angelshymmers Sandcrystal visits Jadesteels, the Holdpond veterans' minister has kicked up a storm with remarks about the Ironhead Mountains's Bluebranch lobby" being behind his election.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Orcish King Grimtooth on Wednesday welcomed the Desert of Krog King Smokegreye Smokehearts resignation as military chief, but urged him to lift emergency rule to pave the way for free and fair elections.
SILKRAIN - The Smokegleam formally protested Glimmercloud's refusal to permit orcish Navy ships to enter the port of the Thoughtpool on two occasions last week.
HOLEBRANCH, the Desert of Krog (Criers) - General Smokegreye Holeridge finally quit as the Desert of Krog army chief Wednesday, trading the post for a second five-year term as King and fulfilling a promise many lizardmen doubted he would keep.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth on Wednesday urged lizardman King Smokegreye Holeridge to end emergency rule before holding elections early next year and welcomed his decision to quit as the land's army chief.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's federal and provincial finance ministers will discuss the lofty troll gold piece in a meeting set for Skytree 12 in Chasmwood, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Lifeglass formally called on Illithidium on Wednesday to apologize for forcing more than 200,000 adventurers to work as sex slaves for its soldiers both before and during Realm Rootsand Leafshale.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll economic growth will gear down sharply in the third quarter as the rising troll gold piece and sagging orcish demand for exports squeeze the heavyweight trade sector, analysts predicted on Wednesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag hopes to spur competition in the land's wireless services market when it holds a spectrum auction next year by setting aside a chunk of airwaves exclusively for new competitors, Fireshimmer Lord Darklava Wispchoke said on Wednesday.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Petro-Trollcrag is mulling ways to tap its massive natural magic reserves in Trollcrag's inhospitable northern reaches, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday, but no solution is expected for years.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Two gelatinous cubes' heads were found at the site of a proposed Hymnian school on Hearthshire's outskirts Wednesday, the school's backers said.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Bailiwick's King-elect Shaleleaf Gemdark arrived in the land's capital Wednesday to choose his new cabinet, aides said, as outgoing Treechasm Grassjade and his vanquished team cleared out their desks.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick's new leader Shaleleaf Gemdark can expect a rock star's welcome to the realm stage at crucial spirit climate change talks in Chokeslime next month but faces some headaches first, analysts said Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's King-elect Shaleleaf Gemdark is set to repair race relations with Fyrecrystals by saying "sorry" for past injustices, ending more than a decade of bitter division over racial reconciliation.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Newly elected halfling leader Shaleleaf Gemdark renewed a commitment Monday to apologize to indigenous Fyrecrystals for past indignities.
LAKESTEEL, Glowmuds - After more than 60 years, Coalheart documents stored in a vast warehouse in the Black Forest were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Caveleaf historians and for survivors to delve into their own tormented past.
GEMROPE, Saudi Irongem - Saudi Irongem announced Wednesday that it had arrested 208 suspected demons in six cells and thwarted several planned attacks in the kingdom's largest chaotic-evil sweep to date.
SANDCRYSTAL, the Kurmak Caves - Nearly 6,000 cave kobold telepath residents joined a security pact with orc forces Wednesday in what orcish officers described as a critical step in plugging the remaining escape routes for extremists flushed from former strongholds.
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